Two days ago I put a photo of the Pelourinho. Today I put again another one of the same place that I taken yesterday, a day when it rained with great intensity in the city of Funchal and all island. What was once a pleasant place yesterday was full of water, as can be seen.
Unfortunately, bad weather on the island caused deaths and many wounded, and heavy damage.

Pelourinho of Funchal on the image date of 1486. Give name off that surrounds. Most recently has been completely restructured.
Here began the first work by Customs of Funchal and the first trading stations.

Scale model of the Capetown Castle, one of the many ships that were decades regular links to South Africa and elsewhere. This type of ship was known on the island for "cape vapors" (because going to the Cape Town at the southern African country). This copy is one of the rooms of the hotel Porto Santa Maria.

Statue of Autonomy. Sculpted in bronze and concrete slabs, is a woman who appears out of nowhere and appears triumphant, with his arm raised. Celebrate the region's autonomy in relation to Portugal. At times it lit a flame.

Yesterday was a hard day in Funchal and in all island of Madeira. The constant rain and strong wind did not ease.
During afternoon, the wind southeast, unusual in the city, encouraged the marginal waves with very strong that this statue was tirelessly to try to sustain the fury of the sea filled with brown land washed away by streams that filled with heavy rains.
Special thanks to my friend and colleague Spinola warned that the waves, and suggested that would make this photo, because other day we had walked around the statue to see the best frameworks. This, with the waves, was one of them.
Without the usual camera I use a Canon, I used what was in my pocket, my phone BlackBerry.

During the event ON Fusion Art 2008, by Porto Bay, held in 2008, in the old town, young artists have interpreted and painted tile spot, live, to join in 500th anniversary of Funchal, which was held in year.
The result is a mural made up of 500 tiles, which opened in October of that year in the Garden of Almirante Reis.